Pablo Pérez's Turn
The outbreak of arbitrary elections disqualifications continues, as the Venezuelan government goes all in on that old democratic dictum: if you can’t beat ’em, ban ’em. Now it’s former...
Politics
Seeing ourselves in PEMEX's mirror
Pity Mexico’s oil sector reformers. After a bitter, hard-fought, multi-decade campaign to open the oil sector to foreign investment, they put together a landmark auction…and the thing flops. ...
Dark Days Ahead
We are three weeks into the race for the parliamentary elections (scheduled for December 6th) and the Venezuelan government has already imposed three over-the-top hurdles for the opposition....
Maria Corina won't back down (Update: Scarano banned too)
Yesterday, Maria Corina Machado offered a press conference to react to the Comptroller-General’s decision to bar her from holding public office for 12 months, which would leave her out...
"It's way too dangerous here, I'm going back to Gaza..."
The AP has a great report by Hannah Dreier (in Spanish here) on Palestinian medical students who get to Caracas, scope the place out, and make a b-line for...
El discurso que ha debido dar Capriles
After my harsh critique of Capriles’s economic policy speech yesterday, plenty of you wanted me to put up or shut up: if not that, what? In that spirit,...
Santa Bárbara
It’s 6:30 PM, and it’s already pitch dark in Maracaibo, courtesy of Hugo Chávez’s tantrum that led to a change in the time zone a few years back. I’m having...
Worse than Wrong: Meaningless
Capping off a horrifically depressing news day, Henrique Capriles gave a “major speech” on economic policy today that barely merited the name. Capriles portrayed himself as presenting a short-term...
Maria Corina Machado barred by the Comptroller-General's office
Maria Corina Machado received today this paper from the Comptroller-General’s office, informing her that she’s declared ineligible to hold any public post for the next twelve months, therefore...
¡Sal de Ese Cuerpo, Pablo Medina!
Some very strange things are happening to Venezuelan political discourse. These days, our radical right-wingers sound more or less exactly like…Pablo Medina! Check out Freddy Guevara’s line on...
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